Chapter 55: Mathematical Hack
"What happened?" Shinozaki asked.
"The crystals disappeared, and the stampede event did not occur."
Shinozaki quickly stood up and said goodbye to Himura. Kazuma did the same.
Himura remained seated. He was very angry with Shinozaki, but getting angry at someone at that moment would not accomplish much. He simply accepted the problem that had been caused.
Himura issued an order. Whenever someone tried to sell the items in large quantities, the responsible team should write down the names of the people and investigate whoever was doing it. That way, he could discover who the person Masaru had hired was.
Haru was feeling strange. Hina was looking at him with a lot of suspicion.
"I know we only had casual sex and that we don’t have any serious relationship, but you could act more like a friend and tell me what you do."
"What do you mean?"
"Did you two have sex?"
Haru remained silent. He was confused about this.
"I don’t know, I really don’t know."
"What do you mean?"
"I only remember entering her house. After that, I don’t remember anything else. I feel like I passed out, and we both woke up naked in the same bed."
"So you’re saying she drugged you and used you?"
"No, just that I have no idea what really happened."
"Why don’t you ask her?"
"That would be very embarrassing."
"But wouldn’t it be better to know what really happened instead of making up so many assumptions?"
"Yes, but I don’t want to ask."
"Alright, I’ll keep my curiosity away from that, but you might end up being consumed by your own curiosity," she said as she took a sip of tea.
"We need to go to the guild, I want to go to the deeper floors and..."
"No, you’re going to stay here and study, we have little time before the exams, so you need to stay studying and focus on that. I already talked to Mio and Masaru, they agreed to take a little break. Besides, it will take him some time to sell all the items, there are many crystals, and he will sell them in smaller quantities because he is afraid Himura will discover the plan."
Hina left and Haru stayed studying. He hated having to read and take notes. In fact, he did not know how to study, he read and wrote everything down and did not know how to summarize, so he took a very long time on the same Chapter. It was a waste of time and brainpower. But it worked, at least in part.
There were more people at the guild. Hina saw many new groups, but it was still far from the number of people the guild had before. There used to be a long line to enter the dungeon, and many people stayed in the cafeteria and the magic item shop.
"Come on, we need to get stronger too," Mio said as she pulled Hina toward the dungeon.
Hina kept looking at Kaede, who seemed not to understand her fixation.
Kaede looked around and searched for Haru.
"What happened between Haru and her?" Mio asked.
"He doesn’t know. He said he simply fainted and the two of them woke up naked in bed. I didn’t believe him, but he spoke with too much conviction for it to be a lie."
"Are you saying she did something with him?"
"I thought about that, but he doesn’t want to talk about it, so it’s better for us to leave it alone. They may have done something and, at the same time, done nothing. Maybe they started and then gave up, I don’t know."
"Gave up?"
"They might have started and he couldn’t continue."
"That day he managed to, and he managed to very easily," Mio said as she remembered Hina’s pussy.
"Yes, but that explains almost nothing. I don’t know, it’s better if we don’t try to understand what happened."
"I agree," Mio said as she stabbed a white wolf.
"Let’s see how many floors we can get to."
Haru got distracted and started making some bets, he hadn’t made any the previous day, as an apology to the system, he made thirty bets.
[Kanzaki Haru
Level: 18]
[Attributes:
STR: 986
DEX: 968
COM: 975
DEF: 957
INT: 966
AGI: 988
LUK: 1.50]
He looked at the games and decided to focus on his studies again, he managed to stay focused for a few minutes, then he stood up, drank some water, and returned. He did this a few more times, gradually, the distractions began to decrease.
He remembered something, he had new skills.
The first was the Answer Key skill.
’A very convenient skill.’
The skill created a 90% chance of getting multiple-choice questions correct.
A perfect skill for the test he was going to take, this would greatly reduce the chance of making mistakes and even made him feel even less motivated to study.
The second skill involved mathematics, this skill made sense for his fake class, the skill allowed him to perform any calculation he needed. It was a mathematical hack.
He searched and found no other skills, only those two, which were incredibly useful, although they were useless in combat. But considering that he would not always need to fight, skills like these were always welcome.
He returned to studying, and even though he was unmotivated, he tried to put in some effort.
He tested the mathematical skill and felt as if someone else were inside his body and he were merely an observer, his mind and hand seemed to work in sync, but he did not feel like he was in control, he simply watched the question being answered.
He compared it with the answer key and, yes, he had gotten the question right.
Then he tested his other skill. On a sheet of paper, he answered several questions, he did not even read them properly, he simply marked the letters he considered to be correct. When he compared what he had marked with the answer key, he realized that he understood what had happened. He had gotten 87% correct, that was below 90%, but it was still within the margin of error, considering that he could have gotten only 10% correct and the skill would still have been working.
Since each question had an isolated 90% chance of being answered correctly, he could have the bad luck of twenty out of the hundred questions falling within the 10% error rate.
He had not understood at first how he had managed to think of that, but then he understood that the mathematical skill went beyond simply performing calculations. His mathematical understanding had increased to a level that made it seem as though he were an expert.
He meditated for a while, and the fat man explained to him why he had acquired the skills he needed.
The explanation was very simple, he could choose several paths, the lucky player skill involved luck in many areas, since he was accustomed to betting and he was going to the dungeon, the first skills involved betting and increasing attributes. Since he needed to use one of the weapons, he obtained a skill that allowed him to use firearms.
At some point, he changed some of his habits and dedicated himself more to studying, so a skill that could help with that was necessary.
’So if I become a cook, will I gain some skill that helps me with that?’
The fat man began masturbating, this time his penis was a little larger, it was still small, but his masturbatory movements seemed more fluid, and the man was happier.
The answer came in the middle of the man’s masturbation, he said yes. The routes changed, but he never lost the abilities he already had, unless he wanted to reset the abilities, but that would be a huge mistake and he would never be able to regain the same ability, so it would be a shot in the dark and something the system considered a great stupidity.
The man began making some strange movements with his face, Haru strangely found that interesting, not in a sexual way, but in context, it was different. His class had a personification of a fat man addicted to masturbation, and that was something he could not help thinking about.
Haru had a few more questions, but he gave up asking after the man ejaculated, the fat man seemed very relieved, as if he really needed to do that. The man’s voice sounded more natural and the man remained serious. That was even more interesting.
Haru simply let the man speak. Haru kept observing the place where they were, before it had been an empty place, then some furniture began appearing and a classic Japanese decoration took over the place, the room was messy, he was not just a fat man, he was a reclusive fat man who spent the entire day stroking his penis. But the size of his penis kept varying as well.
Haru remembered the first time, the small penis, Haru was still learning how to meditate, then the penis shrank and now the penis was larger, the size of the fat man’s penis involved the confidence Haru had in himself. But the woman the fat man had become never appeared again, he did not know what he had to do, but he wanted to know, since seeing a naked woman was much better than seeing a fat man masturbating. In fact, even seeing an ugly woman dressed was better than having to look at that man.
Haru’s thoughts were heard by the man, his penis seemed to become erect whenever Haru thought of insults.
Haru left the meditative state and returned to his studies.